D7000

[Dam_01]

Hiya.

I was hoping to get some pointers/ opinions or experiences from anyone with a Nikon D7000, or any suggestions for a similarly priced alternative to look at. (£400 ish top end mark).

I've thought to finally get around to upgrading from my old film Nikon and some cursory reading around has led to the d7000.
My reasons as such are price, better backwards compatibility with old manual and AI and AI-S lens, and what seems to be a pretty robust 'jobbing' camera that should see me good for alot of years to come. I believe it's also sealed and a bit weather proof which the 3 and 5's aren't.

I also have a couple of legacy lens from my old stuff which I'll need to dig out of the attic so I won't be starting from scratch in terms of kit.

I know it's quite a few years old now
But they're available for the same price as a new 5300 and since I don't really care about NFC, WiFi or GPS particularly does it all stack up and make sense to go for something this relatively old? (Electronically speaking).






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[krela]

You would be much much better off asking on a photography forum, that's what they do.

 

[UEP-Wales]

Go for a Canon... Much better than Nikons

 

[Dirus_Strictus]

Nothing wrong with this piece of kit - used one for years and as you say 'backward compatibility' with older lenses is very good. It's the 'always in the vehicle' item for me, along with a wide angle zoom and medium tele zoom and the sealing has never given me any problems - so it must be very good! There is one good reason for buying tried and tested models, all the bugs have long been ironed out. Best of luck in your eventual choice

 

[Dam_01]

I know, Krela but I've seen that one mentioned a couple of times so I thought I'd ask. Besides, there are a few here who I think have a bit more to do with photography than casual urbex snapping.

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[Sam Haltin]

Its up to yersel DAM_01. I own a Canon EOS 450D and I just picked it off the shelf and Jessops, paid for it, charged up the battery and the started to shoot with it, then I decided to read the manual but didn't need to.

 

[cogito]

D7000 is a great camera.

The first Nikon body where they unleashed some voodoo like powers with low noise shadow detail and dynamic range.

No-one has come close since.

For example, I recently read an article where the entire photography industry seemed amazed that you could push a RAW file from the new Fuji X-Pro2 by 2 whole stops without noise becoming a problem... Except I've pushed files from the D7000 (and their compact camera with the same sensor) by more than that without noise showing up, and they're years old now!

So yeah, cracking camera. For your purposes with backwards compatibility it's probably the perfect body.

 

[druid]

I didn't realise the 7000 was weather sealed but bear in mind that your lenses need to be as well if you plan on getting the kit wet enough for weather sealing to matter.

As you already have some Nikon lenses then it is a good choice of camera (though I'd also add something like the older D300s into the equation as the body is far tougher - you'll get a mint one within your budget and they really are a steal at their second hand prices).

New camera models come out each year - do they really add much? Probably not. If you look at the low light photos on here taken by newage I think you'll agree they are perfectly reasonable...they are mostly taken with an older Nikon (I'm not saying Nikon is better than any other make...thats a nonsense argument and not the point. As it happens he and I both use more than one 'brand' of camera body anyway!). If you look at my photos on here they could have been taken with a ten year old camera or a year old one (or even a compact in a couple of cases) - can you tell me which are which without looking at the exif data?

In short, the D7xxx series are 'good' cameras and I see no reason to exclude them from consideration just based on age (or features you wouldn't use anyway).

 

[Dam_01]

Thanks folks.
Fair point with the lens being weather proof as well.
The D300 is an interesting option too. Definitely going to have to do a bit more reading around that I think.
I wasn't planning on creating A2 prints at 300dpi straight away so 12 Mp probably quite enough.
Thats a heavy camera body too, although similar to my FT2 so...

I am however somewhat restricted to buying from Amazon as it's been an error in my favour which has provided me with a chunk of credit so, every silver lining and all that.